I didn't mean just individuals Siavash jaan. Without a doubt all importers, all manufacturers that use imported raw materials or parts, and anyone that deals with foreign entities for services, would be converting a lot of money into dollars in a situation where the currency is plunging, anticipating that it would cost them more a few months down the road to get the same commodity, part or service. I can't remember the last estimate of how much USD people were hoarding, but I think it worked out to around $200 USD per person or around $15 billion USD in November. If that number is right, it's more than 20% of Iran's total foreign reserves (all currencies) and gold!!! BTW, total foreign reserves dropped by a almost 1/3 last year, so the government really can't afford another major run on USD.
Horrible horrible economic attitude. They have no foresight (the majority). Heck, they don't even have a decent hindsight! Those who posses even a little bit of vision/advantage can easily exploit the rest.
I realize it's almost the same everywhere on the globe, but in Iran's case it's amazing that the general population simply doesn't learn from readily available data and fresh in memory fuck ups of the past.
For an American person to do some simple trend-analysis, there are so many details to consider and so many years of fluctuations to go over that it requires a lot of resources, but for an Iranian to do the same kind of trend prediction, it takes a simple recalling of the events of the past decade. Yet...
I realize it's almost the same everywhere on the globe, but in Iran's case it's amazing that the general population simply doesn't learn from readily available data and fresh in memory fuck ups of the past.
For an American person to do some simple trend-analysis, there are so many details to consider and so many years of fluctuations to go over that it requires a lot of resources, but for an Iranian to do the same kind of trend prediction, it takes a simple recalling of the events of the past decade. Yet...
ROFL @ no foresight & hindsight! 
And ditto to the 2nd part.
That foresight and hindsight thing was GOLD. What I've noticed, at least with the older generations (those in their 60's and 70's), is exactly what you said, no foresight. But you know here we say hindsight is 20/20, right? I wish they actually understood that part at least and had 20/20 hindsight to learn something going forward. Because in retrospect, they always say they had the foresight that they didn't have (man midonestam in tori mishe when they said the exact opposite), so don't need to have hindsight which means no lessons learnt and still no foresight going forward! I lose both hindsight and foresight just thinking about that!
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And ditto to the 2nd part.That foresight and hindsight thing was GOLD. What I've noticed, at least with the older generations (those in their 60's and 70's), is exactly what you said, no foresight. But you know here we say hindsight is 20/20, right? I wish they actually understood that part at least and had 20/20 hindsight to learn something going forward. Because in retrospect, they always say they had the foresight that they didn't have (man midonestam in tori mishe when they said the exact opposite), so don't need to have hindsight which means no lessons learnt and still no foresight going forward! I lose both hindsight and foresight just thinking about that!
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It looks like the government's strategy of temporarily flooding the black market with USD's to induce selling has failed BIG time. Whatever extra liquidity they added in the market was gobbled up in a matter of two days which means they don't even have the type of reserves, or will, to keep the price low for longer periods. Based on that, tt looks like the 5000 estimate from their own people is very realistic in the next few months, if not weeks. Some estimates of inflation are as high as 60%, with the official number @ 30%, which means best case scenario (for the Rial), it should be losing 2.5% of its value per month or as much as 5% with the higher inflation value. That's roughly 100 to 200 Tomans per month!!!
You have to fix the underlying economy, can't just keep printing money to offset high prices because that's just going to increase inflation and with a stagnant economy, you're going to be in a situation of stagflation which is a NO NO for economists - but then again, they're just donkeys anyway and what do they know?!